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Right now I am looking at this type of grinder:

With this type of Salt in it:

Would any salt brand work or is there a "better" brand out there?

1 posted on 10/17/2013 10:26:25 AM PDT by GraceG
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If everyone drank the proper amount of water everyday, there would be no need for dirty ocean salt.


43 posted on 10/17/2013 11:44:13 AM PDT by RetSignman (As Goes America, So Goes the World. A Communist America, A Communist World.)
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There are two sources for sea salt. One method fills lagoons with sea water and then collects the salt after the water evaporates. The other mines the leftovers from ancient seas. Most of the colored and yuppie specialties come from the later. The mine at Berchtesgaden produces green, rose, and black salt, based on trace elements deposited in different levels.

William Bounds Gourmet Sea Salt is a good value for your grinder. You get the trace elements of the ocean you're looking for. Use iodized salt for your cooking ingredients or for raising the temperature of boiling liquids.

If you must grind sea salt around the stove there are several grinders with bases that capture and measure the salt, but they're pretty utilitarian for the table. And, the higher humidity around the stove plays havoc with the grinder. If you decide to grind pepper also, the ceramic mills will do both salt and pepper while the metal mills should be reserved for pepper because of the potential of corrosion.

44 posted on 10/17/2013 11:46:05 AM PDT by kitchen (Make plans and prepare. You'll never have trouble if you're ready for it. - TR)
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Below is a spectral analysis of Himalyan pink salt as it is typically found. The list shows all the trace minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in Himalayan salt. Himalayan salt is a rock salt popular among health food advocates who seek it for the nutritional value of its fairly abundant trace minerals.

http://www.atthemeadow.com/shop/Resources/Minerals-in-Pink-Himalayan-Salt


46 posted on 10/17/2013 12:01:19 PM PDT by smoky415 (Follow the money)
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We use Celtic Grey in our house


52 posted on 10/17/2013 12:38:26 PM PDT by old and tired
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Table Salt - yuk

Sodium ferrocyanide, also known as yellow prussiate of soda, is sometimes added to salt as an anticaking agent. The additive is considered safe for human consumption.[35][36] Such anti-caking agents have been added since at least 1911 when magnesium carbonate was first added to salt to make it flow more freely.[37] The safety of sodium ferrocyanide as a food additive was found to be provisionally acceptable by the Committee on Toxicity in 1988.[35] Other anticaking agents sometimes used include tricalcium phosphate, calcium or magnesium carbonates, fatty acid salts (acid salts), magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate and calcium aluminosilicate. Both the European Union and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted the use of aluminium in the latter two compounds.[38]


53 posted on 10/17/2013 12:49:06 PM PDT by smoky415 (Follow the money)
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Selenium... it is possible to OD on selenium. For selenium eat no more than 3 Brazil Nuts per day as a snack.


55 posted on 10/17/2013 1:08:50 PM PDT by Rodamala
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Found some Himalayan Recycled Yak Salt. They force feed the yaks foie gras, collect the yak pies, dry them in a pollution free natural grass hut,then hand ground by monks with their bare knuckles in the palms of their hands who then sell it to Morton Salt. Then it is used to prevent workers from slipping on their work floor as they color sub Lake Erie salt with a dash of red color #27, bottled and shipped to gourmet stores around the world.


57 posted on 10/17/2013 1:09:30 PM PDT by Cyman
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59 posted on 10/17/2013 1:20:07 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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Sel Gris De Guerande - by Le Tresor - 5 lb. Bag (Fine)

Unrefined. Has all of the trace minerals concentrated from the ocean. Most salt labeled "sea salt" has been refined and contains nothing but NaCl. If it's white, it's no good.

63 posted on 10/17/2013 1:28:09 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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We use Himalayan.


64 posted on 10/17/2013 1:33:01 PM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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